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Contentious Republicans : Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia - James E. Sanders

Contentious Republicans

Popular Politics, Race, and Class in Nineteenth-Century Colombia

By: James E. Sanders

Paperback | 3 February 2004

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Shows how Afro-Colombians, Indians, and "white" peasants helped construct a democratic political culture in 19th-century Colombia, and ways in which the loss of some aspects of this mass-based democracy fed into the pervasive violence of the 20th-century nation Suggests that the reactionary developments contributed to the violence and unrest afflicting modern Colombia Contentious Republicans explores the mid-nineteenth-century rise of mass electoral democracy in the southwestern region of Colombia, a country many assume has never had a meaningful democracy of any sort. James E. Sanders describes a surprisingly rich republicanism characterized by legal rights and popular participation, and he explains how this vibrant political culture was created largely by competing subaltern groups seeking to claim their rights as citizens and their place in the political sphere. Moving beyond the many studies of nineteenth-century nation building that focus on one segment of society, Contentious Republicans examines the political activism of three distinct social and racial groups: Afro-Colombians, Indians, and white peasant migrants.

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"Contentious Republicans is the most intelligent and persuasive application of the insights of 'subaltern studies' I have encountered in the field of Latin American studies. James E. Sanders shows in engaging detail how different subaltern groups turned the republican politics of newly independent Colombia into an arena of struggle. The quality and sheer quantity of Sander's evidence is impressive; much of it is drawn from regional and national archives largely untapped for the purpose of writing social and cultural history."--Charles Bergquist, author of Labor and the Course of American Democracy: U.S. History in Latin American Perspective "Contentious Republicans is a lucid, well-researched, and engagingly written account that will force a rethinking of popular political thought and practice and its impact on national politics in Colombia."--Mary Roldan, author of Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia Colombia, 1946-1953

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